Toulouse No. 3 / Tolosa

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view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: "gothique méridional" (14th-16thC)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Didier Descouens, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by Didier Descouens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Notre-Dame_du_Taur_-_Facade.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "église Notre Dame du Taur vue du clocher de la basilique Saint-Sernin"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © BastienM, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2012 by BastienM [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toulouse_-_église_du_Taur_vu_de_clocher_de_St_Sernin.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Toulouse : La rue du Taur avec la façade de l'église Notre-Dame du Taur (mur-pignon en briques de style toulousain, flanqué de tours octogonales)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henri Moreau, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2010 by Henri Moreau [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:061_Toulouse_Façade_de_l'église_Notre-Dame-du-Taur.JPG] [accessed 10 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the frescoes in the tympanum of the main chancel arch, and the painting on the north wall, are related to the mid-13thC martyrdom of St. Saturninus, first bishop of Toulouse; the legend has him dying at the very site where the cathedral was later built

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Didier Descouens, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by Didier Descouens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Notre-Dame_du_Taur_-_Interieur.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2016]

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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 February 2013 by Pymouss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toulouse_-_Église_ND_du_Taur_20130222-07.JPG] [accessed 10 April 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Didier Descouens, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by Didier Descouens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Notre-Dame_du_Taur_-_Fonts.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20493TOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame du Taur
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [previously St. Saturninus]
Church Location: rue du Taur, 31000 Toulouse, France
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located on rue du Taur, between place du Capitole and the Saint-Sernin basilica, in the old centre of Toulouse
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Toulouse
Historical Region: Languedoc -- Occitania
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original "église du Taur" 11thC; changed to "Saint Sernin du Taur" in 12thC; present 14thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00094521]; dedication to St. Mary dates from 1534
The present font is not listed ["œuvre non classée"]; it is a modern font in reddish marble of a design akin to that of 12th- and 13th-century fonts, except for the division of the inner well of the basin, which appears in France in late-15th (?) and 16th-century fonts. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11th- and 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.605617, 1.442911
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 36′ 20.22″ N, 1° 26′ 34.48″ E